'Centre has no role in invoking NSA against Varun'
Brown says G20 will give world $1 trillion boost
Unclear if North Korea fueling rocket: US official
Sanjay Dutt made Samajwadi Party General Secretary
'Communal' BJP can't fight terror, says Chidambaram
Goa NCP agrees to unique seat-sharing with Congress
PM, Obama exchange views at Queen's reception ahead of meeting
UPA is a sinking ship, says BJP
CBI clears Tytler in '84 anti-Sikh riots case
Satyam Board allows open auction with riders
Nasscom names Pramod Bhasin as chairman
CBI to file charge-sheet against Raju in Satyam case on April 9
| ||
| http://www.dalitvoice.org/Templates/april2009/editorial.htm | | HOME | EDITORIAL | ARTICLES | REPORTS | |
Pick party which brings back black money: Baba Ramdev
Yoga Can Battle Economic Meltdown Says Baba Ramdev
HELP IS AT HAND FOR YOUR EVERY NEED
Vote For India
India of my dreams is that we Indians should vote the best Candidate for the ... sons & daughters of Mother India please awake before our own mother will be ...
www.voteforindia.co.in/ - 25k - Cached - Similar pages -VOTEINDIA
It's time we made our vote count. A National Campaign for Political Reform is a step in that direction. Its aim is to make people aware of the solutions to ...
www.voteindia.org/ - 11k - Cached - Similar pages -India - Let my country awake
Know Profession Series India - Let my country awake. ... Today our country is on the verge of being denied the opportunity to vote for the president. ... BJP has put it up at a campaign website. An article is extracted here: ...
www.buzzle.com/articles/india-let-my-country-awake.html - 19k - Cached - Similar pages -Shut up and vote!
19 Mar 2009 ... Shut Up and Vote! If that becomes the war cry defining the lips of the ... we are running a pan India campaign called Jaagore to awake the ...
www.expressbuzz.com/edition/story.aspx?Title=Shut+up+and+vote!&artid=sfpB2fqoR4A=&SectionID... - 69k - Cached - Similar pages -Twenty22-India on the move: Better Vote or else....!
... the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. ... Better Vote or else....! A spoof of the TOI's Lead India campaign. ... Twenty22 stands for the year 2022,the year when India will be 75 years old. ...
20twentytwo.blogspot.com/2009/03/better-vote-or-else.html - 86k - Cached - Similar pages -The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Editorial
The campaign is more relevant for now than ever before for the nation, ... Much will depend on how awake the voters are about the nature of the risks ahead ... they should vote for to enable the country meet the challenges lying ahead. ...
www.tribuneindia.com/2009/20090303/main2.htm - 20k - Cached - Similar pages -Imagining India
Across the world, Nandan is recognized as one of India’s most successful ... in UP call the Brahmin and Bania castes ‘chor’ in her early campaigns, .... a message to the youth to wake up and vote for the ‘change’ they want. The message is certainly laudable. But what about the effectiveness of such voting in India? ...
imaginingindia.com/blog/ - 45k - Cached - Similar pages -India Votes: Bihar Politicians In Catch-22 Situation Over Crucial ...
15 Mar 2009 ... The current poll campaign in Bihar is therefore unlikely to see the .... Please desist from repeating this and be awake while using words, so crucial. ... Also, there is no homogeneity in the pattern of the Muslim vote. ...
indianmuslims.in/bihar-elections-muslim-votes/ - 60k - Cached - Similar pages -No food no vote, decide Madhya Pradesh villagers
The campaign was carried out in cooperation with Unicef. ... of pregnant and lactating mothers, says a report of the Comptroller Auditor General (CAG) of India. ... Awake, Awake and save children of Madhya Pradesh. ...
www.thaindian.com/newsportal/uncategorized/no-food-no-vote-decide-madhya-pradesh-villagers_10092256.html - 51k - Cached - Similar pages -Shashi Tharoor -
I have great pride in India and believe I can work to make it an even better land for all its citizens. ... ‘We are dying to vote’. 2009-03-23 10:32:07 ... Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake. ... Write a message to all of your friends asking them to support Shashi's campaign ...
www.shashitharoor.in/home?setLanguage=english - 15k - Cached - Similar pages -
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Next |
Swami Ramdev
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| Swami Ramdevji | |
 | |
| Born | Ramkishan Yadav December 25,1965 Haryana, India |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Indian |
| Occupation | Yogi |
| Known for | Efforts in proliferation of Yoga and Ayurveda. |
Swami Ramdev (Hindi: स्वामी रामदेव Born 1965)[citation needed], also known as Baba Ramdev, is an Indian, Hindu swami and an ardent admirer of Swami Dayananda Saraswati, Swami Vivekananda and Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose[citation needed]. He is particularly well-known for his efforts in popularizing Yoga. He is also one of the founders of the Divya Yoga Mandir Trust that aims to popularize Yoga and offer Ayurvedic treatments.
His camps are attended by a large number of people. Over 85 million people[1] follow his yoga camps via TV channels, and video. His yoga teaching sessions are for the masses and free for all. His stated principle in life is to be of help to all. The sessions are conducted with minimal to exorbitant charges, depending on the place where the camp is being offered.
He also insists that the correct way to pronounce Yoga is Yog, as is done in Devanagari-based languages like Sanskrit[citation needed].
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swami_Ramdev
Patanjali Yog Peeth
Swami Ramdev's flagship project, the Patanjali Yog Peeth (PYP) Trust, was inaugurated on August 6, 2006. It's aim is to build the world's largest center for Ayurveda and Yoga that includes facilities for treatment, research and a teaching university[4][3]. The trust, most notably, offers free treatment to those who cannot afford. For all other, the treatment is at lesser costs than hospitals elsewhere.
Through PYP, Swami Ramdev continues to work with various institutions and medical organizations in an effort to study and improve yoga's effectiveness in working against diseases like diabetes, hypertension, obesity, etc.
Provocative speeches |
| Category » Editorial Posted On Tuesday, March 24, 2009 |
| The Election Commission of India has termed Varun Gandhi's election speech as a provocative one and of criminal category. His Bharatiya Janata Party has been advised not to field Varun as a candidate in the election and officials have been directed to register case against Varun Gandhi under criminal procedure. It is clear that he might be arrested so he sought prior bail from High Court Delhi. Along with this he has requested in Allahabad High Court that complaint filed against him be cancelled. This is the same case as it was in the matter of Yoga guru Baba Ramdev, Raj Thckeray. One who commits such mistakes or does it willfully he or she becomes popular overnight through the media. Raj Thackeray on the basis of an advertisement of Amitabh Bachchan -'UP men hai dum' -had for no reason termed him anti- Marathi. Again he gave provoking speeches for changing Hindi sign boards into Marathi through violence and sabotage. Later, a railway examination was made the issue and Lalu Yadav criticised for favouring his State's people. Even the Mumbai High Court had asked from the Maharashtra government as to why cases were not being registered against Raj Thackeray. The then Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil had termed it as his election preparation. The police has filed cases against him for making inflammatory speeches. It appears Raj and Varun, to become popular overnight, are freely using provocative language. This attitude is harmful for the society, politics and the country at large. It shows that people can go to any extent for meeting their personal interests. Similarly, Communist leader Vrinda Karat had alleged that adulterated medicines were being made in Baba Ramdev's Ashram. After this dispute Baba Ramdev got much popularity in the entire nation and now he is being invited even abroad. This popularity would not have been possible for Baba Ramdev even after spending crores of rupees in advertisements which Vrinda Karat did for him! Raj Thackeray and Varun Gandhi should realise that by deceiving the people they may gain only one or two seats but nothing more. |
“Yes! We need to get back the black money Mr. Advani”
Yog Sandesh: Swami Ramdev's Monthly Magazine on Pranayama ...
www.yogsandesh.org/ - 100k - Cached - Similar pages -
Know Yoga : Swami Ramdev
knowyoga.org/tiki-index.php?page=Ramdev - 113k - Cached - Similar pages -
Ayurvedic Medicines from D Y M Trust
www.yogapranayama.com/swamiramdevmedicines.htm - 264k - Cached - Similar pages -
Baba Ramdev spins magic on Kangana Ranaut too | Bollywood News ...
in.movies.yahoo.com/news-detail/46103/Baba-Ramdev-spins-magic-Kangana-Ranaut.html - 33k - Cached - Similar pages -
Yoga by Swami Ramdev
ayurveda-foryou.com/yoga/yoga_swamiramdev.html - 30k - Cached - Similar pages -
News results for Baba Ramdev
 | Pick party which brings back black money: Baba Ramdev - 31 Mar 2009 ... bringing back black money of Indians stashed in various tax havens abroad gained momentum on Tuesday with even yoga guru Baba Ramdev joining the chorus. ... Times of India - 12 related articles » |
| swami baba ramdev | baba ramdev pranayam | baba ramdev yoga | swami ramdev yoga |
| divya yog ramdev | baba ramdev pranayama | swami ramdev ji | swami ramdev ayurvedic medicines |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Next |
Last week too, he had challenged political parties to issue a statement on their stand on black money parked in Swiss banks. ‘‘According to one estimate, money ranging from Rs 50-75 lakh crore is parked in Swiss bank accounts. So I dare them (political parties) to reply to this question.
If they can’t reply, that means the ranks of these parties are all dishonest, corrupt and they themselves have money deposited in Swiss bank accounts,’’ a news agency quoted him as saying at a function in Haridwar.
The matter got government’s attention when it was raised by BJP’s PM candidate L K Advani. In response to his demand that the government make serious efforts to bring back black money, Union home minister P Chidambaram said the matter was being pursued diligently.
Though Chidambaram — who as then finance minister had first taken up the issue regarding Liechtenstein’s LTG Bank last year — only referred to the government’s contact over the issue with Germany, he also elaborated India’s general stand on the issue of transparency in the banking systems of Switzerland and other tax havens.
Foreign secretary Shiv Shankar Menon too claimed that India was working for greater transparency in the functioning of foreign banks in dealing with secret bank accounts. He was replying to a query on whether PM Manmohan Singh would take up the issue during the G-20 summit. ‘‘I can say that we are working for greater transparency. But I don’t think we have come to a decision yet on how to do it,’’ he said.
Obama, speaking before his meeting with Hu in London, said the U.S.-China relationship "will help to set the stage for how the world deals with a whole host of challenges in the years to come."
The SUPERSLAVE of Brahaminical ZIONIST WHITE CORPORATE MANUSMRITI APARTHEID ILLUMINITI TRI IBLIS CORPORATE WAR CIVIL WAR ORDER led by US IMPERILISM Indian PM Manmohan Singh met US President Barack Obama on the sideline of G20 summit!World leaders are set to declare an end to unfettered capitalism at a G20 summit on Thursday after France and Germany demanded they act fast on promises to prevent a repeat of the worst economic crisis since the 1930s. A communique drafted for release at a G20 summit in London, obtained by Reuters, signaled that leaders would submit large hedge funds to supervision for the first time and enhance regulation through a new agency and a beefed-up International Monetary Fund. It included a pledge to deliver "the scale of sustained effort necessary to restore growth" without making any commitments beyond the trillions being spent to stabilize banks, shore up demand and limit job losses. Keen to secure a confidence-boosting message for voters and frazzled financial markets as the world succumbs to recession, US President Barack Obama said there were no substantive differences with Europe, despite the hardball stances taken by the French and German leaders. Washington wanted tougher regulation too, he told a news conference on Wednesday with Britain's Gordon Brown, summit host, saying he was at the summit not just to lecture but to listen and to help lead the way out of trouble. It was not clear whether the flashpoint, which appeared to focus primarily on Sarkozy's demands for blacklisting of tax havens, would be enough to derail a message of unity from the meeting. The draft communique said tax havens would be identified and sanctions could be deployed."The era of banking secrecy is over," it declared.
Baba RAMDEV is the HINDUTVA CORPORATE ICON msot loved by the ILLUMINITI and Media.
Sushma waves white flag, says NDA may not win!In a surprising admission just a fortnight before the start of the Lok Sabha elections, senior BJP leader Sushma Swaraj voiced doubts whether the party-led NDA will get a majority on its own. Swaraj, who is contesting the elections from Vidisha in Madhya Pradesh for which she is the party in-charge, however said that if the NDA emerged as the single largest coalition then with post-poll alliances the BJP-led grouping will be able to form the government.
I have already written about the CASTE HINDU VOTE Bank CORPORATE Mobilisation supported by ELECTRONIC and PRINT media with INTENSE AD campaigns by the ICONS from BOLLYWOOD and CRICKET. AWAKEN and CONSOLIDATE Caste HINDU Voter campaign is launcjhed by some NGOs under MASS MOVEMENT Umbrella.
Just see this report:
Polls were on Dawood henchman hitlist
Johnson T A
Posted: Apr 02, 2009 at 0829 hrs IST
Bangalore Interpol-tagged underworld element Rashid Malabari, who was arrested by the Mangalore police in a joint operation with intelligence agencies last week, was tasked with creating a sensation ahead of the Lok Sabha polls by targeting select political leaders.
According to sources who listened to tapped phone conversations between underworld don Dawood Ibrahim’s henchman Chhota Shakeel and Malabari, who was based in Ullal, Mangalore over the last two months, no specific targets were outlined during the conversations.
However, after Malabari’s location in Karnataka was pinpointed over the third week of March and the underworld operative was detained, he revealed that at least two prominent politicians were targets.
“He was asked to create a sensation ahead of the elections. Malabari had been in India for over nine months after entering the country through Nepal. He travelled around to Mumbai and other places before coming to Mangalore,” Director General of Police Ajay Kumar Singh said. He added Varun Gandhi could have been among the targets.
Malabari had initially been tasked by Shakeel with carrying out an extortion of Rs five crore from a Dubai businessman with roots in Udupi but had not been able to carry out the operation, senior Mangalore police officials said.
“The operations that Malabari was planning seemed to be centred at Mangalore since he had raised a team of locals to help him out here,” police sources said.
“There is a conspiracy to assassinate some prominent persons in public life so as to disrupt the Lok Sabha election process,” Mangalore Superintendent of Police Dr Subramanya Rao said.
Police officials, however, did not go on record to name other possible political targets. Sri Rama Sene chief Pramod Muttalik and a hardline right-wing leader from the coastal Karnataka region were said to be possible targets.
Police sources this was being planned as a terrorist operation using underworld elements. “It was a supari-type operation using handheld weapons to be carried out by underworld sharpshooters,” a senior police official said.
Malabari has links with the Dawood gang going back to 1995 when he — like the absconding Indian Mujahideen head Riaz Bhatkal — was a key player in the Mumbai mafia’s hawala operations. The Karnataka Police have not ruled out links between Bhatkal and Malabari in the recent operation in Mangalore.
The 38-year-old Malabari has roots in the coastal Karnataka region but lived most of his life in Mumbai. Associated with Chhota Shakeel since 1995 after a meeting in Dubai, Malabari is accused in several shootout cases including the sensational attempt on rival underworld figure Chhota Rajan in Bangkok in 2000.
Others arrested along with Malabari at Mangalore are three local youths: Sayyaf T A, a 25-year-old student, Mohammed Hasim, 28, a truck driver and Sahib Ibrahim, 28, a fisherman. Also arrested was a relative of Malabari, Sahil Ismail Sheikh, 23, a real estate dealer from Thane in Maharashtra.
Malabari is alleged to have been in the receipt of funds through the hawala route to carry out operations in India following his return in 2008.
http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/Polls-were-on-Dawood-henchman-hitlist/442078/
Meanwhile, Enraged Sikh leaders protest against Tytler's 'clean chit'!
The Clean CHIT confirms the HINDUTVA Design for ANNIHILITION of SIKHS in ETHNIC CLEANSING as it was operationalised by RSS, GOI and Indian MILITARY in 1984 onwards!
BUDDHISM is KILLED but the BRAHAMINICAL HEGEMONY did not SUCCEED to KILL the SIKHs despite OPERATION BLUE STAR followed by SIKH GENOCIDE in India!
Jagdish Tytler said on Thursday that the CBI's clean chit to him once again proved "his innocence" in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case. Protesting against CBI's clean chit to Tytler, leaders of Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) protested in front of AICC head quarters as well as in front of Sonia Gandhi's residence. They were later detained by the police after their protest turned violent in the national capital.
Tytler was later quoted as saying that the, "truth has come out once again. I was given clean chit earlier also. But a political conspiracy was hatched against me. I am happy that truth has again come out. I am innocent."
Tytler also blamed the media for keeping the "issue alive". The CBI told a Delhi court on Thursday that it wants to close the probe against Tytler in an anti-Sikh riots case.
The investigating agency in 2007 too had asked the court for permission to close the case arguing that it did not have sufficient evidence to proceed. However, the court had rejected the CBI plea.
The case against Tytler relates to an incident on November one, 1984, when a mob had set afire Gurudwara Pulbangash killing three persons in the riots that had broken out after the assassination of then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
Tytler said, "It is the media which has been keeping the issue alive. I am happy today that truth has prevailed. I will fight the election and I am hundred per cent sure that I will get the votes of all sections of the society."
Akali leaders arrested
SAD leaders Onkar Singh Thapar, Manjeet Singh GK and Avtar Singh Hit were among those who were detained in the Tughlaq Road police station.
The demonstrators burnt effigies of Tytler and Sajjan Kumar in front of the AICC headquarters and raised slogans against Congress for nominating them for Lok Sabha seats in Delhi.
They alleged that the two Congress leaders were involved in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots and their nomination should be withdrawn to respect the sentiments of Sikh community.
The police had to resort to water canon to prevent the protesters from entering the Congress headquarters.
Thapar charged that by giving tickets to them, Congress has ignored suffering the Sikh community underwent during the riots when several people were killed and left homeless.
"Sikh community considers Congress as a secular party but the nomination of Sajjan Kumar and Jagdish Tytler has deeply hurt them," Mohan Singh, president of the All India Riots Victim Society, said.
Meanwhile, CBI gave a clean chit to Tytler in the case and informed a Delhi court that it wanted to close the matter.
G20 meets as India warns against protectionism
London Looking for supply of "oxygen of confidence" to the battered global economy, divided leaders of world's top 20 rich and emerging economies will meet in London on Thursday with India calling for a more concerted effort to deal with the crisis and warning that the world would go into a downward spiral if "we give in to protectionist pressures".
US President Barack Obama, who will be at the centre-stage when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and other leaders gather at London Docklands amidst massive security, sought to rally the participants by stating that the challenge can be met together and dismissing reports of divisions among them as "vastly overstated".
Obama's optimism, however, flew in the face of sharp differences highlighted by the tough stand taken by France and Germany on some of the key issues with French President Nicolas Sarkozy insisting today that the Summit should agree to crack down on tax havens and evolve a tough new regulatory mechanism on global finance.
Sarkozy claimed endorsement for this stand from German Chancellor Angela Merkel with whom he had spoken.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, playing host to the most important gathering of world leaders in his country in 70 years since the Great Depression, also sought to project a positive outlook by stating after a meeting with Obama "we are within a few hours of agreeing on a global plan on economic recovery and reform".
Earlier, he had emphasised that the leaders must supply "the oxygen of confidence to today's global economy".
The only economist-turned-politician in the gathering, Singh on the one hand sought not to raise too many expectations from the meeting saying that the Summit should not look for "complete agreement in everything", but at the same time noted that there was a shared sense of urgency and commonality of purpose.
India to save $9 bn in oil import with RIL gas
New Delhi India will save USD nine billion in oil import bill with the beginning of production from Reliance Industries' eastern offshore KG D-6 fields, said Petroleum Secretary R S Pandey.
"Yesterday evening, as RIL has informed us, production has begun," he said.
Initial output was at 2.5 million standard cubic metre and will gradually increase. "Tomorrow it will become five million standard cubic metre per day," Pandey said.
The first, of the 15 fertiliser plants, that will get all of the initial output, is expected to get the gas in 3-4 days time, he said, adding, "The most distant plant will get the gas in about 15 days."
"In four months time, the production will be 40 mmscmd and in about a year's time it will be 80 mmscmd," he said.
"It will reduce oil import bill by about USD nine billion annually during peak production at current prices," Pandey said adding, gas sales over the 11 year-life of the field will generate USD 42 billion in revenues.
The government's share in the production would amount to a minimum USD 14 billion, he said.
ONE DEAD AT PROTESTS
London: Several hundred demonstrators clashed with riot police and smashed bank windows in London's financial center ahead of the summit on Wednesday.
Police said one person died during the protest. The man was found in a street near the central bank where he had fallen down and stopped breathing at around 7:30 p.m. (2:30 p.m. EDT), they said.
It was not immediately clear what caused the man's death and a police source said he likely died from a medical condition, although that would not be confirmed until after a post-mortem.
More protests were planned for Thursday, the main day of a summit involving the world's biggest economies, developed and up-and-coming, in all accounting for more than 80 percent of world trade and economic output.
Global economic output is expected to contract more in 2009 than any year since World War Two, dropping between 0.5 and 1.0 percent, according to the International Monetary Fund, whose head, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, is calling it a "Great Recession."
The International Labour Organization says the crisis could cost 50 million jobs by the end of the year.
G20 leaders were preparing a major expansion in resources available through the IMF, possibly including a tripling of its war chest to $750 billion, officials familiar with negotiation of the issue said.
The draft communique contained a pledge by the G20 nations to allow "candid, even-handed and independent" surveillance of their economies and financial sectors by the IMF.
It also unveiled a Financial Stability Board to work with the IMF to identify economic and financial risks and measures needed to address them, revamping an existing body called the Financial Stability Forum.
MOBILISING TRILLIONS
The G20 leaders hope around two trillion dollars governments are pumping into the economy in tax cuts, building projects and green investments, according to summit host Gordon Brown, will limit the depth and duration of recession and maybe create 20 million or so new jobs.
Paris and Berlin, fearing the summit would fall short of the mark on regulation of tax havens, hedge funds and markets in general, went in gunning for concrete announcements.
"Any regulations we don't agree here, won't be agreed for the next five years," Merkel told a joint news conference with her French counterpart on Wednesday. "The summit is not about horse-trading between regulation and economic growth programs."
"In the results, we want the principle of new regulation to be a major objective ... This is not negotiable," French President Nicolas Sarkozy added.
Obama, making his first official visit to Europe, said G20 nations were not going to agree on every point but brushed aside suggestions the summit would falter because countries were split over the importance of regulation versus new stimulus packages.
"The core notion that government has to take some steps to deal with a contracting global market place and that we should be promoting growth -- that's not in dispute," Obama said.
"On the regulatory side, this notion that somehow there are those who are pushing for regulation and those who are resisting regulation is belied by the facts."
Sarkozy earlier threatened to disassociate himself from any "false compromises" at the summit, the second such meeting of world leaders to try to tackle the problems created by the downturn and credit crunch, which in turn began when the U.S. housing market collapsed over two years ago.
Unemployment could cross 50 mn in '09: ILO
The ILO has forecast that global unemployment could increase by more than five crore this year unless policies are implemented which balance social and economic dimensions.
The global turmoil has also made casual workers four times more vulnerable in the job market than regular workers, it said.
"However, the trend can be reversed if the world acts together and implements policies which balance social and economic dimensions," ILO representative in India Leyla Tegmo Reddys said at a function in New Delhi.
"There should be convergence of policies to maintain and create jobs, get credit flown into enterprises, expand and deepen social protection and promote social dialogue to ensure workers rights are respected," she said quoting the ILO director general.
Reddy said ILO has clearly stated "the current crisis has its root in the past."
The economy was not creating enough descent work and that inequalities within and between countries were widening, she said referring to a study.
"The role of markets were over valued, the role of state was undervalued and dignity of work devalued. In other words there was already a crisis befor the current financial crisis," Reddys said.
"Therefore, ILO has forecast that unless policies are implemented that balance social and economic dimensions, global unemployment could increase by more than 50 million in 2009 from 2007," she said addressing the silver jubilee of Centre for Education and Communication.
India though showed more resilience during these hard times as it was partially integrated into the world market, she obselved.
Nonetheless, the export oriented industry and manufacturing sector saw significant job losses. A reduced demand and limited access to credit has also put pressure on micro and medium enterprises, she said.
According to the Labour Ministry report, the country has witnessed more than five lakh job losses between October and January.
More stimulus not good for economy: CII
New Delhi Stressing fiscal responsibility on the part of the Government, industry body CII has said more stimulus packages will affect the economy adversely rather than help it.
"Any more stimulus package will create problems. We are not asking for (a) fiscal package," President of the Confederation of Indian Industry Venu Srinivasan said.
Srinivasan, who took over as CII President last week, said the Indian economy remained stable despite serious problems in most of the developed world. "We have stabilized at
six per cent growth, which is not bad given the world economic situation ... I don't think the government should artificially stimulate it to 8-9 per cent," he said.
Srinivasan, who heads TVS Motor Company Ltd, the country's third-largest motorcycle maker, said it is time the government got back to fiscal responsibility and bring down the budget deficit.
With the deepening global financial crisis crippling industrial production, the government not only lost tax revenue but also had to give three stimulus packages in the fiscal 2008-09. As a result, the fiscal deficit ballooned to six per cent of GDP against the target of a mere 2.5 per cent.
Sensex closes above 10,000 mark
Mumbai The Bombay Stock Exchange Sensex rose to a three-month high on Thursday, adding nearly 447 points ahead of a gathering of world leaders in London to consider an agenda aimed at tackling the global economic slump.
The Sensex surged 446.84 points to 10,348.83, a level last seen on January 6, as funds indulged in buying bluechips led by interest-sensitive realty and metal sectors on expectations of interest rate cuts, completing three days' gains.
The key index moved between 10,432.31 and 10,107.25 points during the day.
The 50-share National Stock Exchange index Nifty spurted by 150.70 points at 3,211.05, after moving between 3,228.75 and 3,061.05 points.
Marketmen said the buoyancy was based on expectations that the G-20 summit of world leaders is likely to ease the worst economic crisis since the 1930s.
Buying activity picked up after US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said global economies showing "traction" amid widening stimulus efforts, they added.
With inflation, despite a small rise, still remaining close to zero, there are expectations of rate cuts by the RBI, something that could boost sales of homes and consumer durables.
The maximum support to the market came from sectors like realty, metal, oil and gas and banking.
Human rights violation max in UP, Delhi
New Delhi Uttar Pradesh has topped the list of states with maximum number of complaints relating to human rights violation and New Delhi follows a close second, according to NHRC statistics.
The statistics reveal that out of the total 94,559 cases of human rights violation last year, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) received 55,216 from Uttar Pradesh alone.
This accounts for about 58.39 per cent of the total complaints received by the Commission from across the country, followed by Delhi from where a total of 5,616 such complaints were filed till December 2008.
Gujarat, which stands third in the list, accounts for a total of 3,813 complaints of human rights violation.
The NHRC received a total of 3,672 such complaints from Bihar.
Haryana too was close with 3,493 complaints, followed by Maharastra (3,483), Rajasthan (2,640), Madhya Pradesh (2,246) and Punjab (1,082).
However, the Commission did not receive a single complaint of human rights violation from Lakshadweep, while only seven such complaints were filed from Dadar and Nagar Haveli in 2008.
Among the southern states, Tamilnadu has topped others as the NHRC received a total of 3,165 complaints of human rights violation from the state.
The Commission, however, received 1,222 such complaints from Andhra Pradesh, 822 from Karnataka and 355 from Kerala during the same period.
A total of 1,916 complaints of rights violation were filed with the NHRC from Uttarakhand, 1,589 from Jharkhand and 1,008 from Orissa.
Among the north-eastern states, 210 complaints of human rights violation were filed from Assam while the Commission received 11 such complaints from Nagaland, 23 from Meghalaya, 24 from Arunachal Pradesh, 29 from Mizoram, 40 from Manipur and 47 complaints from Tripura.
'Pak using terrorists as strategic tool against India'
Washington Pakistan has, over past several decades, been using terrorists as a strategic tool against India to achieve its goals in Kashmir, several American experts have told a powerful Congressional panel, warning the US against mediating between the two nations on the issue.
Testifying before a subcommittee of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on "Afghanistan and Pakistan: Understanding and Engaging Regional Stakeholders," experts told lawmakers that this dangerous policy needs to be ended.
They also observed that such a policy now seems to have backfired as the same terrorists and extremists groups have gone against the Pakistani establishment, which is reflected in series of terrorist attacks in Lahore recently.
"Over the last many years Pakistan has been covertly supporting Kashmir terrorist groups - now they're called Punjabi terrorist groups - to harass India in Kashmir," said Wendy Chamberlin, president of the prestigious Middle East Institute and former US Ambassador to Pakistan.
"Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-Mohammad are some of these groups. Indians regard them as just as much a terrorist group as al Qaeda, and certainly the horrific attack at Mumbai is evidence of that," said Chamberlin.
Lisa Curtis, Senior Research Fellow for South Asia in the Heritage Foundation's Asia Studies Center, cautioned the US to avoid falling into the trap of directly mediating in the decades-old Kashmir issue
This year model UN assembly to debate on terrorism, Darfur crisis
Font Size -A +A
Express news service
Posted: Jan 05, 2008 at 0000 hrs IST
Pune, January 4 Be it terrorism, genetic modification, or the Darfur crisis, the hottest topics of international discussion will feature at the Model United Nations Assembly (MUNA) organised by the Rotary and Rotaract Club of Pune North East (RCPNE).
MUNA is a simulation of the United Nations Assembly, where student teams representing various countries meet and debate their issues of interest with the final aim of drafting a written UN resolution.
MUNA aims at creating awareness among youth about the functioning of the United Nations as well as give them insight into the issues being discussed globally. Now in its 10th year, MUNA will go national, with entries invited from major cities across the country.
“The MUNA gives students a great exposure to the functioning of the UN and international issues. Moreover, because they have to represent different countries they learn to see each issue from other perspectives,” said MUNA’s Secretary General KS Nikhil Kumar.
Among the topics that will feature this year include the Moon Treaty, economic ramifications of tobacco control, prevention of terrorism, Darfur crisis and migrant workers’ rights.
Delegates from each team will have to research on the domestic and foreign policies regarding these topics in each country to represent that country’s position.
Students, young working professionals and Rotaract members are eligible to apply for the MUNA, and last date for registrations is January 12. For details log on to http://www.rcpnemuna.org.
In Bihar, Rahul spares Lalu, Paswan, slams NDA
Font Size -A +A
Express news service
Patna In his first visit to Bihar after the Congress decided to fight the elections in the state alone, Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday did not attack estranged UPA partners RJD and LJP. Nor did he make any mention of Lalu Prasad Yadav and Ram Vilas Paswan as he kicked off the Congress’s poll campaign in the state, where party candidates are pitted against those fielded by the allies.
The closest he got was at Aurangabad, where he said that “regional parties must be discouraged” so that a national party like the Congress could give a stable government to the people.
Instead of dwelling on Lalu and Paswan, the Congress general secretary chose to attack the NDA and highlight the achievements of the UPA Government at the Centre in poll speeches in Buxar and Aurangabad.
He said that while terrorism only worsened during the NDA regime, the UPA Government dealt sternly with extremist forces and made Pakistan behave and “sit idle at home”.
Rahul said the BJP with Kandahar as background had no moral right to make huge claims on terrorism. “It was the UPA Government that succeeded in exerting pressure on Pakistan, very often responsible for cross-border terrorism,” he said. He exhorted the people to vote for the Congress to “reinstate aam aadmi ki sarkar (common man’s government) at the Centre”.
In Buxar, Congress candidate K K Tiwari is pitted against sitting BJP MP Lalmuni Choubey and RJD’s “man of integrity” Jagdanand Singh. In Aurangabad, sitting Congress MP Nikhil Kumar finds himself in a triangular contest with the BJP’s Sushil Kumar Singh and RJD’s Shakil Ahmed Khan.
Blaming the Nitish Kumar-led NDA Government in the state for not checking migration, Rahul said: “The Government has to look for reasons why people have not stopped migrating to various parts of the country for jobs.”
http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/In-Bihar-Rahul-spares-Lalu-Paswan-slams-NDA/442061/
Why every party in power in UP loves the NSA
Font Size -A +A
Manish Sahu
Posted: Apr 02, 2009 at 0825 hrs IST
Lucknow Varun Gandhi’s detention under the National Security Act, 1980, for his alleged anti-Muslim hate speech by the Mayawati government may have got the BJP to cry foul. But in UP, few voices have been heard when the draconian law has been invoked against lesser-known people away from public glare — by governments headed by BSP, SP and the BJP.
Under the NSA, there is no provision for bail and the detainee can be held up to one year. The state government has to inform an “advisory board” — normally headed by a sitting or retired judge of the High Court — of the reasons behind invoking the Act within three weeks of the day of detention. The board has to evaluate the government’s case, give the detainee an opportunity to be heard and then decide to either uphold or quash the detention. This has to be passed within seven weeks from the date of detention.
Consider these:
• On August 3, 2007, under the current BSP regime, the Mirzapur police arrested and booked forest rights activist Roma under NSA. A leader of the Kaimur Kshetra Mahila Mazdoor Kisan Sangharsh Samiti, Roma was campaigning for the implementation of the recently passed Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006. “The police claimed I was misleading farmers when I was only apprising them of their rights,” she said. The state government withdrew the NSA case after seven days.
• Also, under the present BSP regime, a 14-year-old boy was arrested under the Prevention of Cow Slaughter Act and booked under NSA last August to ostensibly “prevent” him from causing communal discord. He’s languishing in a Lucknow jail although the Juvenile Justice Board has declared him a minor and directed that he be moved to an observation home.
“The board arrived at the decision after examining the boy’s school record”, said the boy’s lawyer Nusrat Jamal. The boy was arrested — along with four others on August 12 in Kakori — where, according to his lawyer, he had stopped on his way home from his madrasa to watch TV. The police conducted a raid on getting information that there were some people there “indulging in cow slaughter.”
• Daya Shanker Dubey, president of the Northern Uttar Pradesh Chamber of Traders, was detained under NSA in 2007 during the Mulayam Singh regime. Official reason: he was a threat to communal peace and law and order. The police said that Dubey, a retired IAF officer, had threatened members of another community. They claimed they had caught him running away from a riot-hit area in Gorakhpur on January 28, 2007. Dubey claimed he just happened to be there when trouble broke out.
For over two months, Dubey remained behind bars until the NSA advisory board quashed his detention, accepting his contention that as a 65-year-old man, who had recently undergone heart bypass surgery, he could not have been caught running.
• Also, in the Mulayam Singh regime, 46-year-old Mohammad Qais, president of the Kushinagar Minorities Welfare Committee, was arrested from his Padrauna residence on January 30, 2007, and booked under NSA to allegedly “prevent him from inciting communal trouble.” It was alleged that he incited violence, took part in a riot, destroyed government property on Moharram. Qais claimed that before the incident, police had sent three reports to the SDM listing persons who were “likely to create trouble” and his name didn’t figure in any. Qais won his case and was freed that April. “Actually, they arrested me just to make the number of Muslims arrested equal to the Hindus held,” he said.
• In June 1992, during the BJP government, headed by Kalyan Singh, the Sonbhadra police arrested Janata Dal MLA Vijay Singh Gond, who is now in the Samajwadi Party and eight others and booked them all under NSA to prevent them from for disturbing law and order by “misleading farmers about land settlement.”
The police said they burnt government property and settlement records. “I was not even present at the spot when the farmers created a ruckus alleging that their farms were being transferred to land-grabbers in the name of settlement,” said Gond. The advisory board upheld his detention but the High Court quashed it after four months.
• On December 30, 1999, during the BJP government, headed by Ram Prakash Gupta, an Income Tax and Excise team raided a gutkha factory in Jalaun. There was a clash between factory staff and officials, leading to the registration of a criminal case. Pradeep Nagotia, Managing Director of the Ram Shri Steel Private Limited, was among those named. Since he was neither present at the site nor owned the gutkha factory, this led to protests by businessmen across the state. For three months, Nagotia was on the run. When he surrendered, the police booked him under NSA.
“My family approached the government and showed them documents that the factory was just one of our franchisees. It was then that the government withdrew the NSA”, said Nagotia.
http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/Why-every-party-in-power-in-UP-loves-the-NSA/442085/
WB to help Himachal prepare environment masterplan
Font Size -A +A
Ashwani Sharma
Posted: Jan 06, 2009 at 2256 hrs IST
Shimla Moving a step ahead to put the proposed environment masterplan in form by next year, senior state officials have opened a dialogue with the World Bank and other international experts to make Himachal Pradesh the first carbon neutral state of the country.
In fact, fresh round of discussions with the World Bank were held late last week immediately after the state government had invited environmentalist Sunita Narain for an interactive session with MLAs and senior state bureaucrats. Narain, and even before her, Prof N.H. Ravindranath, a noted figure on climate change, have suggested for consulting experts before taking any final decision on an environment master plan, or policy on climate change.
“The Department of Environment has been advised to consult all departments, local stake holders, NGOs and experts at length so that the document becomes a practical guide for all future action,” says Forest and Environment Minister J.P. Nadda.
Enquiries reveal that the environment department has already done a broad exercise on the issues, which will form the main focus of the master plan. The first, however, to come, will be a policy on climate change. “There has already been a great deal of work done. By March 2009, Himachal Pradesh may come out with this policy, though much will depend on the Central policy, which is still awaited,” says Dr Nagin Nanda, Director, Environment and Scientific Technologies.
Setting up of an environment fund, a voluntary initiative, has already helped the government to generate an awareness about serious affects of environmental pollution. The drive to undertake an environment audit of all government departments and CFL scheme have invoked a positive response.
Payment for Environment Services(PES), an issue which Himachal Pradesh had raised with the Planning Commission, after its team visited Costa Rica to study the country’s model, has received endorsement from environment experts. “Himachal Pradesh should get PES, but before it actually puts up its case, there is a need to study as to which type of model will suit Indian conditions. The locals should and must be made partners in all future plans on climate change, PES and afforestation,” Sunita Narain told The Indian Express.
The issues which Himachal Pradesh has decided to include in its action plan on climate change include introducing technological interventions for reduction of Greenhouse gas emissions from sources such as industrial, business, residential, automobiles, energy, landfills and agriculture sectors. It also aims to counterbalance the current Greenhouse gas emissions through conservation strategies such as afforestation programmes, promoting use of renewable energy, meeting energy requirement from the hydel power, biomass rather than fossil fuels, recovery of energy from the waste and to prevent change in forest land use.
Snow, hail lash Shimla, Manali
Shimla and other tourist resorts in the state today experienced fresh snowfall, beside a spell of hail, intensifying the cold conditions in the town and higher reaches, including the entire tribal belt of Kinnaur, Lahaul-Spiti and Bharmaur. The hill town witnessed at least 3 cm of snow in the early hours, followed by an intense spell of hail and rain. The day temperature in Shimla has further dipped down to 1.2 degrees Celsius, while it is already below minus in the tribal belt. Reports say Narkanda experienced 7 cm of snow during the day and Kufri had six cm of snow. Kufri today witnessed a huge rush of tourists, arriving mainly from Chandigarh and parts of Punjab and Haryana. Similar reports have been received from Manali and other hill stations, including Dalhousie and Dharamshala.
http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/WB-to-help-Himachal-prepare-environment-masterplan/406951/
Apr 2, 9:54 AM EDT
Asian voices gain force as crisis drags on
By ELAINE KURTENBACH
AP Business Writer
LONDON (AP) -- Asian nations, who dominate the roster of industrializing economies, are demanding a greater say over how to salvage and reshape the global system that brought them unprecedented prosperity but now threatens to reverse that progress.
They appear to be getting it.
As leaders of the Group of 20 leading economies haggled Thursday over details of a declaration on reviving stalled growth and reforming international financial institutions, it was clear there would be no meaningful agreement if the Asian countries were not heard.
"We have long called for increasing representation of emerging economies. This is finally taking place, but only very slowly," said Osamu Sakashita, deputy cabinet secretary for public relations for Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso.
"There is a welcome shift but there is more to be done in that direction," he said.
Meeting on the eve of the summit, President Barack Obama handed Chinese President Hu Jintao a diplomatic coup when, according to a senior American official, he agreed on the need to reform the International Monetary Fund to give China and other developing countries "an appropriate role."
Developing economies account for nearly half of all exports, and Asia for about half of that total. With trillions of dollars in foreign reserves, China and other countries in the region have unprecedented financial heft.
Beijing has led demands from developing economies for a bigger say in managing the world's finances and has suggested its contribution to a global bailout fund might be contingent on receiving it.
British officials said they expected China and others to make significant pledges of funding to boost resources available to the IMF. One official, speaking on condition of anonymity because talks were ongoing, said it was likely that nations would go further than a doubling to $500 billion.
In return, there will likely be an acceleration of efforts to give China and others greater clout on the IMF, they said.
Such changes are imperative given the shift of power and productivity to Asia in recent decades.
The last time London hosted a world economic summit, in 1933 in the midst of the Great Depression, geopolitical and economic power lay squarely in the West - in the United States and European colonial powers.
Today, China is fast overtaking Japan as the world's third-largest economy in terms of economic output, if not per capita wealth.
"International institutions need to reflect the realities of power in the world," said Ed Gresser, trade director at the Progressive Policy Institute in Washington.
"To be effective, they have to involve and include the emerging economies. They need to feel they have a voice."
In the weeks before the summit, Chinese leaders stressed their desire for fundamental changes to the world financial order, calling for the creation of a new global currency to reduce reliance on the U.S. dollar.
Beijing's Central Bank governor, Zhou Xiaochuan, touted the "superior system advantage" communist-ruled China claims in bypassing messy democratic approval processes to take action.
Japan was proposing a "significant increase" in funds available for lending to developing nations, and a topping up of support to the International Monetary Fund, Sakashita said.
Japanese Prime Minister Aso planned to announce an increase in trade finance funds and development assistance, he added.
Thailand's prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, representing the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), planned to stress the region's readiness to contribute to the global financial reforms, drawing from lessons learned from the Asian financial crisis in the late 1990s, the Thai newspaper The Nation reported.
Critical to all Asian nations: reassurances that rich countries will keep their markets open to exports, the lifeblood of modern affluence for much of the newly industrialized world.
At the same time, China in particular is striving to reduce reliance on exports by encouraging its thrifty consumers to spend more.
By the time the London summit opened, the focus had shifted to how to restructure the world financial system to prevent the market meltdowns similar to the one that brought on the current crisis.
Other measures under discussion and likely to be in the summit declaration include a call to set up a new international financial oversight body to supplant the Financial Stability Forum, and another to register hedge funds and credit ratings agencies to more closely oversee risk-laden financial instruments.
----
Associated Press writer David Stringer contributed to this story.
Dalai Lama to inaugurate celebrations at Ramdev's ashram
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wednesday March 18 2009
By SUNIL RAO
Print this article
Email this articleA segment of Indo-Canadians are planning to make their anger at the manner in which the Indian flag was recently allowed to be desecrated known to their elected representatives at Queen's Park this Sunday, Mar 22.
The protest, being planned by like-minded grassroots organizations across the GTA, coincides with a rally being planned simultaneously in the memory of influential and widely respected Indian freedom fighter Bhagat Singh, who was martyred March 23.
The organizations have come together under the umbrella of the Indo-Canada Federation, founded Feb 7, 2009 as a direct response to the Indian flag desecration and "harassment of the people of Indian origin" on Feb 1, says an ICF release.
Around 30 community leaders based in the GTA met at the Vedic Cultural Centre in Markham recently, to express their "deep concern and outright condemnation" of the incident, and of the "group responsible for violating the Canadian Charter of Rights" and "making provocative gestures" and utterances. They decided to form ICF.
The protesters are in particular upset at the manner in which the handful of anti-India protesters, sympathizing with the ideology of a breakaway Khalistan during Indian Republic Day celebrations held at Pearson Convention Centre Feb 1, were allowed to hold the 2,000-plus Indo-Canadians to ransom.
The pro-Khalistani activists had, that day, placed the Indian flag strategically on the driveway leading to the venue, and were encouraging Indo-Canadians to drive and/or walk over the Indian Tricolour, ostensibly to provoke a confrontation.
Their ire is also directed at Peel Police officers, who they say had refused to intervene and provide any assistance to those seeking trouble-free entry to the venue.
"We urge the people of Indian origin and the friends of India to come forward and join ICF to strongly protest against such acts of hooliganism by a bunch of misguided people, and at the same time demand from the law enforcing agencies respect and safety of our human rights to peaceful assembly to celebrate our national festivals in Canada," said Yogesh Sharma, convenor, ICF, at a conference called in Mississauga last week.
While initially slow to anger, participants at the Republic Day celebrations had then expressed outrage at what was happening immediately outside the venue. Indian consular officials requesting action from Peel Regional Police - there at the demonstration "in a neutral role to see peace was maintained and assist with the traffic" - had also seemed to get little response from the officers.
Asked about the incident subsequently, a diversity relations officer at Peel Regional Police had explained he wasn't present at the site and so couldn't provide details, but had stressed: "There was no violence."
Eventually, efforts made by the event's organizers, Panorama India, had led the demonstrators to stop their protest and disperse a little before the event itself ended.
Asked what a demonstration at Queen's Park could now achieve - or whether it might even provide more unwelcome publicity - community leader and Vishnu Mandir President Dr Buddhendra Doobey accepted the outcome was as yet uncertain.
But while the protest may not achieve the desired effect, "we still must register our protest, to let it be know we oppose such action," he said.
The official release added: "Let us not forget that bearing injustice by keeping quiet is as grave an offence as the one committedâ?¦. It is high time we wake up and stand together to demand self-respect and honour, as settlers and citizens of a country that is well known to be the 'Protector of Human Rights'."
ICF, which describes itself as a secular, non-profit organization, is also inviting like-minded boards and trusts of temples, gurdwaras, mosques, churches and community service organizations of Indo-Canadians to join under its umbrella to seek civil rights and social justice as granted in the Charter, and the Canadian constitution.
Other key members include Amar Erry of Arya Samaj, Gokul Khatri of Sanatan Mandir, Sandeep Tyagi of Freedom Yoga, Gurdev Singh Mann of Sikh Temple North York, Mukesh Tayal of Agarwal Samaj, Mahendra Gupta of Hindu Sabha Mandir, Kiran Banwait of South Asian Seniors, Dr Gagan Bhalla of Patanjali Yog Peeth, and Chan Yu Hsiung of Millen Mills Lions.
Signature campaign
- Indo-Canada Federation has started up a signature campaign circulating through various temples, gurdwaras and community service organizations, urging members of the public to sign up on the petition that seeks redress from civil rights violations.
- The petition, which aims to uphold the "fundamental rights of Indo-Canadian communities not affiliated to pro-Khalistan movement" is to be handed over to Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
- The petition says: "Weâ?¦ seek your intervention in the matter so that in future such ugly incidents are not allowed to happen and our constitutional rights are trampled upon by extremists in the presence of police officers. We also request you to order a formal inquiry in the role played by Peel Police."
No comments:
Post a Comment